You Are Your Best Project Management Tool

Software projects today are getting more and more complex. Projects that used to take minutes to complete a full build now start with fetching from the repository and may require an hour or more to build.

“In the early days, we had no choice but to hire rejects …. Nobody else would come. But we trained the hell out of them, and they became great.” Employees who’ve graduated from top business schools such as Harvard and MIT are incompetent when it...

Running a project, managing a business or just being a family is often about finding creative ways to get things to happen. Frequently, this is finding innovative ways, like teaching your daughters to play wargames, to motivate people to do or learn useful project skills.

My best mentors helped me figure out how to do my job better by giving me information and insight, and not by yelling at me to work harder or to stop bringing up all my crazy project management tool ideas!